" I told my limo driver,' I don't give a damn where you park it.' "
Posted on 06/10/2009 6:34:42 AM PDT by NYer
Done in by a handheld.
Heard this morning that there are several other dems ‘talking’ to the republicans.
This is going to be fun to watch.
The tide is turning in America and the rest of the world.
There's bound to be a way to work racism into it.
Not really. The kingmaker went back to the GOP, because he discovered that, even though they suck, they suck less than the Democrats.
Sources said White House political director Patrick Gaspard w/ deep New York ties was tasked to work the phones. They're not looking to save Malcolm (or the hapless Paterson), they want renegade Dems back in the fold ASAP.
Betcha Sen Dean Skelos is being bombarded by Pubs allover the US wanting his gameplan.
" I told my limo driver,' I don't give a damn where you park it.' "
I heard on the local news this AM, that there are other democrats talking to the GOP, and that the GOP may be willing to split committee chairmanships with defecting Dems, if it will help establish a coalition.
And so they did.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Can’t wait to sit down with Golisano.
“But this little Blackberry is so shiny and blingy and all. Who can resist it?”
If he truly were diverse and multicultural, he'd be using a Whiteberry.
Other sources had Republicans boasting 3-4 more Democratic senators could enter the GOP fold. Sources identified Martin Dilan and Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, and Bill Stachowski of Buffalo, as Democrats that Republicans hoped would flip.
Bronx Democrat Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. defected along with Hiram Monserrate of Queens to give the GOP a 32-30 working majority.
The fact that the Pubbies made good on their promises by installing Espada as leader is sure to help the Dem defections increase.
The two dems who flipped are scoundrels who ought to have been thrown out of the party. But they’re dems so they continued in their positions.
What a delicious turn of events.
One slashed his girlfriend with a broken glass and the other does NOT live in his district.
One indicted and the other under investigation.
Perfect dems!
As politicians, these guys are interested in power and money. And that’s all. Party is irrelevant except as a vehicle for the acquisition of power and money.
.......There’s bound to be a way to work racism into it. .....
Detroit, Philadelphia, Oakland, Atlanta, NY Senate.....
Black leadership failure from hacks
Is Golisano the one talking about moving to Florida half time?
Sources identified Martin Dilan and Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, and Bill Stachowski of Buffalo, as Democrats that Republicans hoped would flip. At least one maverick Democrat, Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., said he had no plans to switch sides, blaming billionaire Tom Golisano for engineering the Albany coup.
It should be an interesting day. The Senate Chambers are still closed.
The Senate chamber is locked and empty yesterday on orders of Sergeant-at-Arms William Martin
Fred Dicker, who has an office at the state capitol, has a good handle on the evolving situation.
* Rumors swirled that a handful of other Democratic lawmakers were preparing to defect to the Republicans.* The White House even jumped into the fray, trying to save Democratic control of the state Senate.
* More chaos loomed with the GOP threatening to hold a session in a public park near the Capitol today if Democrats failed to hand over keys to the gilded chamber.
Meanwhile, the governor is holding a press conference just past noon today. Fasten your seatbelts, we're in for an interesting ride.
There is good news as well. The new Republican/Democratic alliance that voted Monday to remove Smith is preparing to vote over the next two weeks on a range of conservative-oriented reforms, including a cap on state spending, a cap on local school property taxes, and the re-establishment of the popular STAR property tax rebates, which were abolished by Paterson's budget.
If they don’t get spending under control, NY is doomed.
All this phoney baloney ‘investment’ talk is just code word for spending.
Americans are waking up to the reality that the spending did nothing to help the economy and the money went down the rat hole.
Yeah, but that was the billiance of the plan. Goody Two Shoe guys would never have flipped. And the Pubbies have the latino vote in their pocket as well.
Malcolm was pressuring Espada to come clean....... so he was a natural to flip. Monserrate was also tainted, and anxious to change the political discourse.
In the aftermath---both of these tainted lawmakers look like superheros.
Flipping bleached out all their sins. ROTFL.
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